Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest, MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2025

Posted: 1st December 2025

This week, Bill Hartung looks at the ominous push by tech billionaires to take over by the military sector while Joseph Gerson warns against aggravating hostilities with China. 

Warmongering by big tech

Our technological advances should not be centered around ways to build more efficient killing machines. That makes the tech bros’ enthusiasm to supplant traditional weapons makers even more alarming and sets in motion a new tech-driven arms race. But the big tech AI firms and their billionaire directors seem intent on warmongering, a nightmare for the rest of us when the technology could instead be used for meaningful advances and mutual cooperation. READ MORE

China’s economic superweapon

“Beijing’s export controls announced in October are the economic equivalent of a 1950s nuclear weapon test, demonstrating both its possession and willingness to use this ultimate economic weapon to impose global economic domination,” writes Joe Gerson. Before draconian sanctions and saber rattling, the US must remember that China has a near global monopoly over rare earth minerals and magnets. READ MORE

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